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<FONT color="green">001</FONT>    package org.codemonkey.util;<a name="line.1"></a>
<FONT color="green">002</FONT>    <a name="line.2"></a>
<FONT color="green">003</FONT>    /**<a name="line.3"></a>
<FONT color="green">004</FONT>     * Interface for marking objects as datagram decoders. An encoded strings is a string that contains a number that denotes the length of a<a name="line.4"></a>
<FONT color="green">005</FONT>     * value followed by the value itself. Lists are prepended with the number of items in that list followed by a separator.<a name="line.5"></a>
<FONT color="green">006</FONT>     * <a name="line.6"></a>
<FONT color="green">007</FONT>     * @author Benny Bottema<a name="line.7"></a>
<FONT color="green">008</FONT>     * @since 1.0<a name="line.8"></a>
<FONT color="green">009</FONT>     */<a name="line.9"></a>
<FONT color="green">010</FONT>    public interface DatagramDecoder {<a name="line.10"></a>
<FONT color="green">011</FONT>    <a name="line.11"></a>
<FONT color="green">012</FONT>            /**<a name="line.12"></a>
<FONT color="green">013</FONT>             * Populates the current implementation instance fields with values decoded from the given string (binary packet / datagram) of the<a name="line.13"></a>
<FONT color="green">014</FONT>             * current server response.<a name="line.14"></a>
<FONT color="green">015</FONT>             * <a name="line.15"></a>
<FONT color="green">016</FONT>             * @param encodedString The string that can be decoded into a concrete class instance.<a name="line.16"></a>
<FONT color="green">017</FONT>             */<a name="line.17"></a>
<FONT color="green">018</FONT>            void decode(StringBuilder encodedString);<a name="line.18"></a>
<FONT color="green">019</FONT>    }<a name="line.19"></a>




























































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